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Muggle Quidditch is a sport based on Quidditch, the fictional sport developed by British author J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series of novels. It is most popular amongst college students. The sport was created in Middlebury, Vermont.
In Muggle Quidditch, as in fictional Quidditch, there are seven positions on a team. Because Wizarding Quidditch is based on fictional devices and concepts such as magic, Muggle Quidditch has been adapted for play on the ground, with game play confined to a playing field comparable in size to a hockey rink.
The equipment in Muggle Quidditch varies depending on venue. Three circular goals are placed on either side of the pitch. The goals are often hula hoops held up by PVC pipes. All players are required to carry a broom between their legs at all times. Slightly deflated volleyballs usually act as the quaffle, and dodgeballs serve as the bludgers. While the Snitch is a magical object within the canon of the Harry Potter novels, in Muggle Quidditch the Snitch is simply a tennis ball contained in a sock tucked in the waistband of the snitch runner. The snitch runner is a neutral player affiliated with neither team dressed in all gold or yellow, sometimes adorned with wings. After release, the snitch runner (and thereby the snitch itself) is allowed to roam an area beyond the playing field. When played on a college campus the range is often the entire campus. The seekers search for the runner around campus; if they fail to catch him, he returns to the field after a specified time. Unlike Rowling's Quidditch, the capture of the Snitch is worth only 30 points, making it far more likely than in Rowling's game to find oneself in a "catch the Snitch, lose the game" situation. (This situation arose in the Quidditch World Cup in The Goblet of Fire when Bulgaria was down by 16 goals. A variant of it, in which Gryffindor needed to win by at least 200 points to win the House Cup, occurred in The Prisoner of Azkaban.)
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